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Troll Control:

--- Quote ---Edward Schreiber M.Ed., T.E.P., is a Trainer, Educator, Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. He is Director of the Moreno Institute East, a training center located in Western Massachusetts. Mr. Schreiber is co-editor, along with Toni Horvatin, of a recently published book on psychodrama: "The Quintessential Zerka: Writings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy" by Routledge Press

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Read: "QUACK"

What's wrong with these people?  This BS was weeded out of mental health treatment decades ago and now they want to bring it back as QUACKERY-light?

Look at the qualifications of the head quacker.  Do you see a mental health degree?  I sure don't.

It just goes to show that the clinical director of ASR is a complete hack with no business being in "the business."  This just knocks me back!  How on earth do these folks plan on offering "evidence-based" approaches that include discredited quackery?

ASR and it's "director" are both complete jokes.  Don't send your kid there, ever.

Anonymous:
This type of therapy has the POTENTIAL to be very effective if done ethically with sensitivity.  Having someone recreate their rape is absolutely crazy.  This is the danger of TBS'.  There are not enough qualified people to facililtate this level of therapy in a responsible manner.  I have seen this stuff done very well and very poorly.  When it is done well, lifes can be changed for the better.  When it is done poorly lives can be severely traumatized.  Unfortunately, the owners of TBS' will not put up the money needed to keep the qualified staff.  They would rather build buildings.

Troll Control:
Good points.  However, one caveat: this "therapy" can be very damaging, even if carefully guided.  It's not the only nor the best method out there.  I say "don't play with fire."  It's unnecessary and could become very, very damaging to the client.

Of course you are correct in saying that "EG/TBS" should never engage in these activities.  They just don't have qualified staff.  Last time I checked ASR's roster they had only a single licensed counselor and many had no degrees in mantal health fields at all.  That's a recipe for disaster...

Anonymous:
Agreed.  Another problem with the TBS' is that ALL students go through the same therapy.  Not all students are best served with the same kind of therapy.  I know HLA has tried to mix some things up to meet students individual needs, but the basics of the program remains the same for every child.  The real tragedy comes when a students is obviously not appropriate for what HLA, or any TBS,  does and instead of refering them to someone else they try everything under the sun to keep them there.

Troll Control:
You got that right.  They hang on to their pop sheets like grim death, especially at HLA, where there's a monetary bonus offered for keeping kids in the facility.  This reminds me of the CIA's "extrordinary renditions."  Put the kid in a private prison, deny contact to any outsiders and hang on to them until a court forces you to let them go.  Pretty sad.

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